Malnutrition News

Kananga -
A war of words has broken out between the United Nations and the DR Congo government which is shunning a donor conference in Geneva to raise $1.7 billion to tackle a humanitarian crisis that Kinshasa says has been vastly exaggerated by aid workers.

Ouagadougou -
While widespread malnutrition remains the biggest child killer in Burkina Faso, mothers' tasks are made all the more arduous by a chronic lack of access to contraception, Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire philanthropist Bill, told AFP in Ouagadougou t...

Maiduguri -
Doctors crowded around Abdullahi. One squeezed a drip and another prepared a plastic syringe. The young boy didn't move. Only the shallow rise and fall of his chest indicated he was still alive.

Dayton -
Dr Margaret Edwards has been charged with failing to report neglect or abuse in the death of a 14-year-old girl who had cerebral palsy, and weighed only 28 pounds when she died in Southwest Ohio, The AP reports.

Abuja -
A recent study carried out on behalf of a UK charity organization shows that Nigeria ranks along with India, Bangladesh, Peru and Pakistan as countries where half of the world's most malnourished children live.

Westport -
Chronic malnutrition, a deadly and widespread crisis largely overlooked in the face of food scarcity, currently impacts one in four children across the globe and places almost half a billion children at risk of permanent damage within the next 15 years.

The UN agricultural agency on Monday said famine conditions have spread to a sixth area in Somalia and the growing food crisis in the Horn of Africa could put another 750,000 people at risk of “imminent starvation” within the next four months.

Their skin is taunt, bones visible. They are 46% of the children living in India. Starving in a country that is seeing an economy boom.
UNICEF is now getting their plight out in the open. Hopefully it will spark a reversal of these young ones fate.